• DocumentCode
    2961665
  • Title

    Microcalcification enhancement and classification on mammograms using the wavelet transform

  • Author

    Docusse, Tiago Alexandre ; Furlani, Jullyene R. ; Romano, Rodolfo P. ; Guido, Rodrigo C. ; Chen, Shi-Huang ; Marranghello, Norian ; Pereira, Aledir S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Cienc. de Comput. e Estatistica, Univ. Estadual Paulista, Sao Jose
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    1-8 June 2008
  • Firstpage
    3181
  • Lastpage
    3186
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a method to enhance microcalcifications and classify their borders by applying the wavelet transform. Decomposing an image and removing its low frequency sub-band the microcalcifications are enhanced. Analyzing the effects of perturbations on high frequency sub-band itpsilas possible to classify its borders as smooth, rugged or undefined. Results show a false positive reduction of 69.27% using a region growing algorithm.
  • Keywords
    image classification; image enhancement; mammography; medical image processing; wavelet transforms; false positive reduction; image decomposing; mammograms; microcalcification classification; microcalcification enhancement; region growing algorithm; wavelet transform; Neural networks; Wavelet transforms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks, 2008. IJCNN 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • ISSN
    1098-7576
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1820-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1098-7576
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4634248
  • Filename
    4634248